Recently, ScholarGPS, an international authoritative academic evaluation agency, released the list of the world's top 0.05% scientists in 2024. More than 200 scholars from Chinese mainland have been listed among the Highly Ranked Scholars (Lifetime), and over 1000 scholars have been listed among the Highly Ranked Scholars (Prior 5 Years). Prof. Yuan Shouqi, was honored as Highly Ranked Scholars (Lifetime) in the specialty of centrifugal pumps, becoming the first scholar in the field of water pumps in China to receive this honor.

Prof. Yuan Shouqi, Director of the National Pump and System Engineering Technology Research Center and Director of the Asian Fluid Machinery Committee (ranked first among Chinese scholars), has been dedicated to the theoretical and methodological research, engineering practice promotion, discipline and industry development, and talent cultivation of core equipment for agricultural irrigation and drainage for over 40 years. He has led and promoted the development and progress of the agricultural irrigation equipment discipline and industry, and has won two second prizes of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, two National Teaching Achievement Awards, and one Ho Leung Ho Lee Science and Technology Innovation Award.

ScholarGPS brings together the information archives of more than 30 million scholars in various disciplines around the world, as well as massive big data resources of papers, patents, and books. Applying artificial intelligence, data mining, machine learning, and other data science techniques, it comprehensively analyzes the research results (number of papers published), impact (citations, excluding self-citations) and paper quality indexes to rank the excellence of more than 30 million scholars and 55,000 institutions worldwide in various fields, disciplines and professions (14 fields, 177 disciplines and more than 350,000 majors).

Being honored as the ScholarGPS Highly Ranked Scholars (Lifetime) is not only a recognition of personal academic achievements, but also marks the continuous improvement of the global influence of Jiangsu University's water pump research.